#Dwarf fortress butcher not hunting skin#

If you use one or two dedicated animal trainers to train dogs, you may notice they will be followed by a large pack of them, along with their puppies. Unassigned war dogs and hunting dogs follow the dwarf who trained them, but can still be caged.

A workaround for this is to train the dog with the dwarf you want the dog to follow. Once a dog is assigned to a dwarf, it cannot be unassigned nor placed in a cage. You can assign a war dog or hunting dog to a dwarf via his preferences menu ( v, select dwarf, p, a) to help him in combat. (Ideally, the dogs should be out of view of the trap corridor to prevent injury from ranged weapons.) Hunting dogs may be particularly well-suited to guard duty because of their improved observer skills. The traps will prevent aggressive invaders from harming the dogs, while the dogs prevent thieves from sneaking past the traps into the base. Guard dogs work particularly well when placed behind a hall of traps or other siege-breaking devices. You can assign dogs to restraints to act as guard dogs. This flag is only set for creatures which do not leave any sort of butcherable corpse, such as vermin and creatures such as grimelings or magma men.Dogs left to their own devices will wander around, spending most of their time in meeting areas, and attacking any hostiles they see.Īs with any friendly creature, dogs can spot ambushers and thieves.

#Dwarf fortress butcher not hunting skin#

In all cases, you still get one skin and one skull, where appropriate.Ĭreatures with the flag cannot be butchered by any means.

Butchering a 'child' version of the animal (kitten, puppy, calf, dragonling, whatever) will produce 2/3 the normal amount of bones, meat and chunks, while butchering a 'baby' animal (if modded) produces 1/3 the normal amount.

Look for 'NOBONES' in the raw object data, and if it does not appear, refer to 'SIZE'.

A number of bones equal to the animal's size, unless the animal is defined as producing no bones.

Again look for 'NOMEAT' in the raw object data, and refer to 'SIZE' otherwise.

A number of worthless chunks equal to the animal's size, unless the animal produces no meat.

Look for 'NOMEAT' in the raw object data, and if it does not appear, refer to 'SIZE'.

A number of pieces of meat equal to the animal's size, unless the animal is defined as producing no meat.

In practice, most animals do have definitions for the amount of fat they produce.

No fat, unless the animal is defined as having a specific amount of fat.

Look for 'NOSKIN' in the raw object data.

One skin, unless the animal is defined as having no skin.

Look for 'NOSKULL' in the raw object data.

One skull, regardless of the number of heads it has, unless the animal is defined as not producing a skull.

When an animal is butchered, it will always produce the following: It cannot be hunted and butchered if defined as 'NOT_BUTCHERABLE' in the raw object data or if it would be forbidden by your race's ethics. Animals taken as pets by someone cannot be slaughtered, which poses a problem for reducing the number of animals, or trying to get food.Īny living animal's corpse may be collected and butchered, by default. Their status will say 'Ready for slaughter'. With higher skill, butchers will process corpses (from hunted animals) more quickly, though tame animals designated for slaughter will always be processed instantly.īutchering is performed automatically at a butcher's shop, but only if there is an animal specified to be butchered or a suitable carcass on a stockpile somewhere, whether created by hunting or by battle.īutchering of livestock is done by using z, enter on the Animals tab, and then hitting b to mark an animal for slaughter. Butchers do the dirty job of processing animal corpses and body parts for meat, fat, skin, bones, and a skull at the butcher's shop.